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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AMGN Amgen	$272.05 -1.4%	$297.78	$253.30 ▼ $346.85	$146.27B	0.51	2.76 million shs	3.62 million shs
GILD Gilead Sciences	$98.16 -0.7%	$107.95	$62.07 ▼ $119.96	$122.23B	0.26	7.57 million shs	12.99 million shs
PDLI PDL BioPharma	$2.47	$2.47	$2.09 ▼ $3.86	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	$429.60 -1.2%	$491.04	$377.85 ▼ $519.88	$110.44B	0.51	1.39 million shs	2.94 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AMGN Amgen	+1.95%	-5.18%	-4.78%	-7.37%	-8.15%
GILD Gilead Sciences	+1.00%	-7.17%	-6.27%	+0.88%	+51.08%
PDLI PDL BioPharma	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	-3.38%	-14.66%	-8.37%	-9.63%	+5.99%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AMGN Amgen	4.5238 of 5 stars	3.2	2.0	3.3	3.9	3.4	2.5	0.6
GILD Gilead Sciences	4.9737 of 5 stars	3.4	5.0	4.2	4.1	4.0	2.5	1.9
PDLI PDL BioPharma	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	4.2672 of 5 stars	3.3	4.0	0.0	3.3	1.9	2.5	1.3

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AMGN Amgen	2.41	Hold	$310.23	14.03% Upside
GILD Gilead Sciences	2.78	Moderate Buy	$110.55	12.62% Upside
PDLI PDL BioPharma	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	2.59	Moderate Buy	$515.04	19.89% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest PDLI, AMGN, VRTX, and GILD Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
5/7/2025	AMGN Amgen	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$235.00 ➝ $280.00
5/7/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Wolfe Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ Peer Perform
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Leerink Partnrs Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Strong-Buy ➝ Hold
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	William Blair Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$450.00 ➝ $442.00
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Royal Bank of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$420.00 ➝ $423.00
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$462.00 ➝ $464.00
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$512.00 ➝ $515.00
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Cantor Fitzgerald Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$535.00 ➝ $535.00
5/6/2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Leerink Partners Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Market Perform	$550.00 ➝ $503.00

(Data available from 5/8/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AMGN Amgen	$34.13B	4.29	$27.26 per share	9.98	$10.93 per share	24.89
GILD Gilead Sciences	$28.74B	4.25	$7.75 per share	12.66	$15.44 per share	6.36
PDLI PDL BioPharma	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	$11.02B	10.02	N/A	N/A	$63.90 per share	6.72

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AMGN Amgen	$4.09B	$10.96	36.03	12.72	2.63	12.24%	176.32%	11.71%	N/A
GILD Gilead Sciences	$480M	$4.75	265.30	12.10	0.71	1.67%	31.63%	10.38%	N/A
PDLI PDL BioPharma	N/A	$0.19	13.00	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	-$535.60M	-$2.20	N/A	24.53	2.11	-4.86%	-2.02%	-1.49%	N/A

Latest PDLI, AMGN, VRTX, and GILD Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/5/2025	Q1 2025	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	$4.29	$4.06	-$0.23	$2.49	$2.85 billion	$2.77 billion
5/1/2025	Q1 2025	AMGN Amgen	$4.18	$4.90	+$0.72	$3.20	$8.05 billion	$8.15 billion
4/24/2025	Q1 2025	GILD Gilead Sciences	$1.77	$1.81	+$0.04	$1.04	$6.77 billion	$6.67 billion
2/11/2025	Q4 2024	GILD Gilead Sciences	$1.67	$1.90	+$0.23	$1.42	$7.15 billion	N/A
2/10/2025	Q4 2024	VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	$3.99	$3.54	-$0.45	$3.50	$2.78 billion	N/A

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AMGN Amgen	$9.52	3.50%	+8.53%	86.86%	14 Years
GILD Gilead Sciences	$3.16	3.22%	+2.74%	66.53%	10 Years
PDLI PDL BioPharma	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest PDLI, AMGN, VRTX, and GILD Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
4/25/2025	GILD Gilead Sciences	quarterly	$0.79	3%	6/13/2025	6/13/2025	6/27/2025
3/4/2025	AMGN Amgen	quarterly	$2.38	3.05%	5/16/2025	5/16/2025	6/6/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AMGN Amgen	9.62	1.26	0.95
GILD Gilead Sciences	1.24	1.50	1.20
PDLI PDL BioPharma	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	0.01	2.69	2.35

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AMGN Amgen	76.50%
GILD Gilead Sciences	83.67%
PDLI PDL BioPharma	N/A
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	90.96%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AMGN Amgen	0.69%
GILD Gilead Sciences	0.27%
PDLI PDL BioPharma	2.20%
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	0.20%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AMGN Amgen	25,200	537.65 million	533.50 million	Optionable
GILD Gilead Sciences	17,000	1.25 billion	1.24 billion	Optionable
PDLI PDL BioPharma	109	N/A	N/A	Optionable
VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals	4,800	257.08 million	256.28 million	Optionable

PDLI, AMGN, VRTX, and GILD Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Earns "Outperform" Rating from William Blair

May 8 at 12:59 PM | marketbeat.com

Scotiabank Issues Pessimistic Forecast for Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Stock Price

May 8 at 12:35 PM | marketbeat.com

Royal Bank of Canada Issues Positive Forecast for Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Stock Price

May 8 at 12:35 PM | marketbeat.com

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Given New $464.00 Price Target at Morgan Stanley

May 8 at 11:59 AM | marketbeat.com

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Price Target Raised to $515.00 at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

May 8 at 10:26 AM | marketbeat.com

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Shares Gap Down on Disappointing Earnings

May 8 at 10:21 AM | marketbeat.com

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Given "Overweight" Rating at Cantor Fitzgerald

May 8 at 9:24 AM | marketbeat.com

Vertex Pharmaceuticals' (VRTX) Market Perform Rating Reaffirmed at Leerink Partners

May 8 at 8:39 AM | marketbeat.com

Vertex Pharmaceuticals' (VRTX) "Hold" Rating Reiterated at Needham & Company LLC

May 8 at 8:39 AM | marketbeat.com

Corton Capital Inc. Purchases New Stake in Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX)

May 8 at 7:53 AM | marketbeat.com

Cercano Management LLC Decreases Stock Holdings in Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX)

May 8 at 6:50 AM | marketbeat.com

Bamco Inc. NY Sells 5,000 Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX)

May 8 at 5:29 AM | marketbeat.com

William Blair Reaffirms Outperform Rating for Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX)

May 8 at 3:21 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) Given Consensus Rating of "Moderate Buy" by Brokerages

May 8 at 2:51 AM | marketbeat.com

Scotiabank Cuts Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) Price Target to $442.00

May 8 at 2:47 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Vertex Pharma extends selloff as Wolfe downgrades after Q1 miss

May 7 at 5:10 PM | msn.com

Vertex Pharma extends selloff as Wolfe downgrades after Q1 miss

May 7 at 5:10 PM | msn.com

VRTX Stock Down as Q1 Sales of New Drugs Miss Expectations

May 7 at 8:30 AM | zacks.com

Cary Street Partners Financial LLC Purchases New Position in Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX)

May 7 at 6:45 AM | marketbeat.com

Banque Transatlantique SA Makes New $248,000 Investment in Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX)

May 7 at 5:49 AM | marketbeat.com

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PDLI, AMGN, VRTX, and GILD Company Descriptions

Amgen NASDAQ:AMGN

$272.05 -3.79 (-1.37%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$271.58 -0.47 (-0.17%)

As of 07:57 PM Eastern

Amgen Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers human therapeutics worldwide. The company's principal products include Enbrel to treat plaque psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriatic arthritis; Otezla for the treatment of adult patients with plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and oral ulcers associated with Behçet's disease; Prolia to treat postmenopausal women with osteoporosis; XGEVA for skeletal-related events prevention; Repatha, which reduces the risks of myocardial infarction, stroke, and coronary revascularization; Nplate for the treatment of patients with immune thrombocytopenia; KYPROLIS to treat patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma; Aranesp to treat a lower-than-normal number of red blood cells and anemia; EVENITY for the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal for men and women; Vectibix to treat patients with wild-type RAS metastatic colorectal cancer; BLINCYTO for the treatment of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia; TEPEZZA to treat thyroid eye disease; and KRYSTEXXA for the treatment of chronic refractory gout. It also markets other products, including Neulasta, MVASI, AMJEVITA/AMGEVITA, TEZSPIRE, Parsabiv, Aimovig, LUMAKRAS/LUMYKRAS, EPOGEN, KANJINTI, TAVNEOS, RAVICTI, UPLIZNA and PROCYSBI. The company serves healthcare providers, including physicians or their clinics, dialysis centers, hospitals, and pharmacies. It distributes its products through pharmaceutical wholesale distributors, as well as direct-to-consumer channels. The company has collaboration agreements with AstraZeneca plc for the development and commercialization of TEZSPIRE; Novartis Pharma AG to develop and commercialize Aimovig; UCB for the development and commercialization of EVENITY; Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. for rocatinlimab development and commercialization; and BeiGene, Ltd. for oncology products expansion and development. Amgen Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California.

Gilead Sciences NASDAQ:GILD

$98.16 -0.74 (-0.75%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$98.16 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 07:44 PM Eastern

Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes medicines in the areas of unmet medical need in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company provides Biktarvy, Genvoya, Descovy, Odefsey, Truvada, Complera/ Eviplera, Stribild, Sunlencs, and Atripla products for the treatment of HIV/AIDS; Veklury, an injection for intravenous use, for the treatment of COVID-19; and Epclusa, Harvoni, Vemlidy, and Viread for the treatment of viral hepatitis. It also offers Yescarta, Tecartus, and Trodelvy products for the treatment of oncology; Letairis, an oral formulation for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension; and AmBisome, a liposomal formulation for the treatment of serious invasive fungal infections. The company has collaboration agreements with Arcus Biosciences, Inc.; Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.; Pionyr Immunotherapeutics Inc.; Tizona Therapeutics, Inc.; Galapagos NV; Janssen Sciences Ireland Unlimited Company; Japan Tobacco, Inc.; Dragonfly Therapeutics, Inc.; Arcellx, Inc.; Everest Medicines; Merck & Co, Inc.; Tentarix Biotherapeutics Inc.; and Assembly Biosciences, Inc. It also has research collaboration, option, and license agreement with Merus N.V. for the discovery of novel dual tumor-associated antigens (TAA) targeting trispecific antibodies. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Foster City, California.

PDL BioPharma NASDAQ:PDLI

PDL BioPharma, Inc. manages various patents in the United States and internationally. The company's patents cover humanization of antibodies. It also offers notes and other long-term receivables services, as well as engages in the equity investment activities. The company was formerly known as Protein Design Labs, Inc. and changed its name to PDL BioPharma, Inc. in 2006. PDL BioPharma, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals NASDAQ:VRTX

$429.60 -5.22 (-1.20%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$429.60 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 07:58 PM Eastern

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, a biotechnology company, engages in developing and commercializing therapies for treating cystic fibrosis (CF). It markets TRIKAFTA/KAFTRIO for people with CF with at least one F508del mutation for 2 years of age or older; SYMDEKO/SYMKEVI for people with CF for 6 years of age or older; ORKAMBI for CF patients 1 year or older; and KALYDECO for the treatment of patients with 1 year or older who have CF with ivacaftor. The company's pipeline includes VX-522, a CFTR mRNA therapeutic designed to treat the underlying cause of CF, which is in Phase 1 clinical trial; VX-548, a non-opioid medicine for the treatment of acute and neuropathic pain which is in Phase 3 clinical trial; Exa-cel, for the treatment of sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia which is in Phase 2/3 clinical trial. In addition, it provides inaxaplin for the treatment of APOL1-mediated focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and co-morbidities, such as hypertension which is in single Phase 2/3; VX- 880 and VX-264, treatment for Type 1 Diabetes which is in Phase 1/2 clinical trial; VX-970, which is in Phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of cancer; and VX-803 and VX-984 for treatment of cancer in Phase 1 clinical trial. Further, it sells the products to specialty pharmacy and specialty distributors in the United States, as well as retail pharmacies, hospitals, and clinics. Additionally, the company has collaborations with CRISPR Therapeutics AG.; Moderna, Inc.; Entrada Therapeutics, Inc.; Arbor Biotechnologies, Inc.; Mammoth Biosciences, Inc.; and Verve Therapeutics., as well as collaborations with Tevard Biosciences to develop novel tRNA-based therapies for duchenne muscular dystrophy. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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